Claims About Cholesterol, Statins, and Heart Disease

The biggest, most expensive, most profitable lie in modern medicine, and it's still being pushed today.

And here's where it came from, same guy, Ancel Keys.

In the 1950s, he noticed that people with heart disease often had high cholesterol, so he concluded that cholesterol must be the cause.

This is a classic correlation-causation error.

Obviously, he wasn't very good at studies or honesty.

People with heart disease also wear shoes.

That doesn't mean that shoes cause heart disease.

See what I'm getting at? The pharmaceutical industry saw an opportunity.

If cholesterol causes heart disease, then we need a drug to lower cholesterol.

Enter statins. Statins are now one of the most prescribed medications in the world.

Over 200 million people take them. The statin industry is worth over 20 billion dollars a year, and the whole thing was built on a lie.

Here's what the actual science shows. Cholesterol doesn't cause heart disease, inflammation does.

Your body produces cholesterol because you need it.

It's essential for every cell membrane in your body.

It's the precursor to testosterone and estrogen and cortisol and vitamin D. Your brain is 25% cholesterol.

Blaming cholesterol for heart disease is like blaming firefighters for fires because you see them at every fire.

And here's the part that should make you question everything.

Half of all heart attacks occur in people with normal or low cholesterol.

Half. That means the other half had high cholesterol and half had low cholesterol, which means there's no correlation.

If cholesterol caused heart disease, that wouldn't be possible.

The Framingham Heart Study found that people with cholesterol below 150 had higher rates of cancer, stroke, and overall mortality.